Metternich, the extract. Here is a pill from the Wednesday newsletter on the world and foreign policy. We talk about America and migration and this is the story of Scott Nicol
Scott Nicol is 51 years old, he is an artist and a human rights activist. Of those of migrants in the first place. This story was born in the area on the border between Mexico and the United States and has an underlying – bitter – irony. It is a hymn to simplicity and wit, a proof of the desire for redemption against closure, of freedom against security.
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Nicol has crossed the border fortified by the wall (of Bush, of Obama and finally become with Trump not so much longer as more “noisy” in terms of political propaganda). The Pope celebrated Holy Mass in February 2016 in Ciudad Juarez, the most dangerous city in the world according to some parameters. Scott Nicol, we said, goes hunting stairs. They are those used by migrants arriving from the Latin American route to overcome the barrier. Jeep patrols pick them up, stack them and then drive over them to destroy them. But it seems like a vain undertaking. There is always a ladder still “hanging” on the wall which means that a Latinos has mocked technology and barriers. The US authorities say: nine out of ten we take them anyway. Yet the fact that a $ 5 ladder beats a portion of the wall costing 27 million raises some questions.